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Minnesota Tourism 2013 Summer Business Survey Reveals Continued Moderate Growth
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Results from a recent Explore Minnesota Tourism (EMT) survey of Minnesota lodging and camping properties showed Minnesota accommodations with their fourth consecutive summer of modest growth and recovery. Overall, the informal survey indicated that summer 2013 business levels were up compared to a year earlier for both occupancy and revenue. However, results varied by accommodation type. Hotels, motels, B&Bs and historic inns did overall quite well, but resorts and campgrounds, which focus on outdoor activities, were negatively impacted by a cold and wet start to summer.
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Research conducted by SMARI in 2008. Explore Minnesota Tourism (EMT)evaluated their publications, including insight into the travel planning process, the role of print publications, their impact on travel, and evaluations of specific Minnesota publications. Usage of the Internet to gather travel information has become the norm, but people still use printed publications. A key question addressed in this study is how printed publications integrate with on-line resources to meet consumers informational needs.
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Toledo >Food & Dining > Church's Chicken
2124 Franklin Ave, Toledo, OH | Directions 4362041.663301 -83.544510
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Southern-style comfort food like fried chicken and biscuits are the staples at this fast-food restaurant. – In Short
Church's Chicken first opened in 1952 across the street from the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, selling only fried chicken. Today, the restaurant has locations across the U.S., and offers a variety of Southern specialties. In addition to fried chicken, the menu features Crunchy Tenders (white-meat chicken strips) and Texas Chicken: a half chicken with char-grilled flavored seasonings. Sides include Honey Butter Biscuits, Jalapeno Cheese Bombers, mashed potatoes with gravy and fried okra.
finger licking good – Church's is one of the best chicken places to eat. The service is friendly and quick. The chicken is NOT greasy like KFC. The price is really good too. You've gotta try it to understand how good it is!!!
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Each week during the school year, Burger King and the Newsplex honor a high school senior that excels in athletics and academics. This week, Albemarle seniors Matt Lockman and Allison Huschke were honored as the Student Athletes of the Year.
Lockman was the Student Athlete of the Week on Feb. 7. He finished his high school career with a second place finish at states in the 100 free, and a third place finish in the 50 free.
The Patriots swimmer is now UVa bound, where he will swim for the Wahoos. Lockman maintained a 4.55 GPA at Albemarle and plans to study engineering at Virginia.
The other male finalists for the award were Daniel Poehailos of Monticello and Orange County's Alex Montes de Oca. Lockman said it was an honor to receive the award, especially considering the student athletes who were also finalists.
"Everybody is really smart and they work hard. I was shocked, I mean I knew of both the other people and I knew Alex, who was also another finalist, and they're both really dedicated to the sport, and really dedicated in the classroom, so it's cool to think that people think that I deserve to win."
Albemarle swimming coach Jake Shrum, who also swam at UVa, said he knew that Lockman was a good student, but was surprised by just how involved he was when it came time to nominate student athletes.
"The list of honors societies Matt was in was pretty absurd, like four or five. We definitely didn't have that many when I was in high school, at least not ones that I was in. So I mean, he's a very smart and intelligent person, and definitely very deserving of the award."
Huschke was the Student Athlete of the Week on Nov. 8. She maintained a 4.3 GPA during her time as a Patriot, and is committed to running track and cross country at JMU next year.
As a senior at Albemarle, Huschke won the 3200m at the state indoor track championship. She also earned a ninth place finish at the state cross-country championship. In her junior and senior seasons, she won back-to-back Ragged Mountain Cup titles.
"In my forty years, there's only one girl that can come close to Allison as being the toughest distance runner," said Albemarle indoor track coach Buz Male. "There is no one who's more humble and a better sport than Allison, so this award is well deserved."
"It means a lot, I mean anyone could have gotten it," Huschke said of her Student Athlete of the Year honor. "It's nice to be recognized I guess because I mean running and swimming, it's pretty much your life. You have to eat right and sleep right, and there's a lot of practice put into it."
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Orange >Food & Dining > Papa John's Pizza
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hard plastic in food – We always bought pizza from here an had no problems well this past saturday we had a problem my friend was eating a slice of pizza well something stabbed her in the mouth she thought it was a toothpick was orange an hard ended up being some plastic thing, Well we called an talked to the guy manager an he said he would take care of it so we was like good but we wasnt driving back out to orange he was suppose to put a credit on my account well he didnt. We figured give them another chance called yesterday said how much is my credit the lady said what credit had to explain the guy manager WAS suppose to give us a credit BUT didnt give us no credit then this other young girl manager looked like she was 12 didnt tell me on the phone all she said how many pizza u want We got up there an she wanted me to pay for it. they was only taking $5 dollars off. when the guy manager lied an told us he would take care of us.. This place they should wear gloves go in an look at the people there U will wonder Y.. Just Dirty. Will not be going back there an will be reporting them to the health department an the BBB. think before u go here an not only ended up with nasty pizza but no 1 up there washes there hands so guess who ends up getting sick the Customers that buy it.. Watch them they use the cash register an touches money an then goes an make your food an u should no how nasty money is everyone hands all over it..
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Wilkie Allen Buchanan, 71, of Johnson City, passed away on Saturday, August 17, 2013, at Johnson City Medical Center.
A native of Bakersville, N.C., he was the son of Dorothy Stamey Buchanan of Bakersville and the late Otis Buchanan.
Wilkie was a graduate of Bowman High School in Bakersville. He was a self-employed car salesman and also had worked for the Thorp Company for 30 years. He was a member of Cane Creek Baptist Church in Bakersville and attended Piney Grove Freewill Baptist Church.
Wilkie was also preceded in death by a sister, Joanne Staton.
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A memorial service for Mr. Buchanan will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 20, in the chapel of Henline-Hughes Funeral Home with the Rev. Richard Jones and the Rev. Paul Crowe officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Buchanan Family, 1706 East Fairview Avenue, Johnson City, TN 37601.
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Dr. White is a certified psychoanalyst in the state of Vermont and has been a Certified Psychoanalyst since 1984 and a nationally certified addiction specialist. She is the Director of Clinical Studies at the Vermont Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and has been a faculty member and training analyst at BGSP for 35 years. In addition to her private practice, Dr. White has maintained a practice at the Lynn Community Health Center for over 20 years. Through LCHC, Dr. White has also helped to institute psychotherapy in the Lynn public school system.
Due to her pioneering work accessing the emotional lives of children through acting workshops, Dr. White was awarded a scholarship from the University of Illinois School of Social Work for a master's degree. After graduate school, Dr. White continued her work with children by developing "talking" programs for teenage gang members. Recently, Dr. White has developed the Program for Educators and Clinicians at BGSP, which offers seminars and conferences focused on child-related professions. Currently, she supervises therapists in the school-based program, which is jointly sponsored by BGSP and the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.
Dr. White's dissertation titled Life as Pain: Psychic Restructuring After Catastrophic Trauma, which explored the lasting effects of trauma on the psyche, led her to investigate the effect of such an unresolved crisis on the children of holocaust survivors from Cambodia.
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I've been writing an end of the school year column for a few years now so it's becoming a bit of a tradition. I guess we'll just dive right in. Here's a few tid bits from the 2012-13 Sparks-area prep sports scene.
•I'll start with thank yous. From our Trib sports staff, thanks to all countless coaches, coach's spouses and youth sports volunteers in the area who help us out. Coaches, we appreciate you taking time to chat and comment on your athletes and their efforts. We know that's not always easy when you're on the short end of the score. Coaching spouses, thanks for answering our calls at odd hours, sometimes late, and getting your significant others to call us back. Volunteers, thanks for keeping stats and scorebooks, getting copies, opening locked doors and all the other countless ways you help us out.
•The Rail City saw a handful of state champions. The girls golf and volleyball teams at Spanish Springs High School took home state titles. Wrestlers, Tyler Beaulac at Spanish Springs and Spencer Empey at Reed get to call themselves Nevada's best. RHS track stars, sprinter Adriana Newell and discus thrower Brent Kelly, can call themselves the state's best as well. In the small school ranks, Zach Hunt of Excel Christian gets to put himself among the state's elite, too. He won the D-IV 1,600m and 3,200m.
•A few weeks ago, the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association hosted its annual northern Nevada Top 10 banquet, honoring some of the North's best student athletes. The honor nets those chosen a $1,500 scholarship among other prizes. A pair of standout Rail City athletes, Lyndsey Anderson of Spanish Springs and Empey from Reed, were bestowed with the award. The NIAA could not have cited two finer student athletes. Both are amazing athletes and exceptional students but both also find ways to give back through volunteer efforts in the community. Anderson even gave the Sparks Tribune a plug in her acceptance speech. You gotta like that!
•Our Tribune sports staff announced last week our annual athletes and teams of the year. The girls team award went to state champion Spanish Springs volleyball and the boys award went to state runner-up Sparks soccer. The girls athlete of the year went to Anderson and the boys athlete of the year was Reed's Devin Gray. These awards are given to the top teams and athletes from the three Sparks-area high schools, Reed, Spanish Springs and Sparks. The aforementioned teams and athletes put in a lot of hard work and shared a lot of positive team chemistry with coaches and other athletes to achieve their special success. Congratulations to you all.
•Another local squad that maybe did not quite have team-of-the-year success, but still did something special, was the Sparks girls softball team. After years of struggles, the Railroaders club won a Mount Rose League title and qualified for postseason play. It was the SHS crew's first postseason berth since 2006 and I believe just its second since 1996. Railroaders coach Frank Avilla and his team have put in countless hours in the summer and offseason to improve. It's shown and the team reaped the rewards with a league title. That had to feel good for a group that had struggled mightily in recent years and one not many gave much of a chance this spring.
•Lastly, Sparks has one of the most gifted high school athletes in the nation in a young woman named Gabby Williams. There is plenty of evidence to back that up. The Reed student athlete, who just completed her junior year, was fifth in the Olympic high jump trials last summer, earning alternate status on the United States Olympic team. She was also recruited for basketball and has given a verbal commitment to national powerhouse UConn. Williams tore her ACL in a league hoops game against Reno last January. The injury cost her a chance to help Reed defend its 2011-12 state hoops championship and she missed her junior track season. Our Trib sports staff wishes her well and nothing but good luck in her rehabilitation efforts and on the road to recovery.
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A student with an alleged connection to the partial evacuation of Coyote Village has been arrested.
Elan Haba, 19, a sophomore on the Rutgers-Newark campus in Newark, N.J., was arrested Tuesday night and faces charges including theft, and possession of fireworks and a prohibited weapon.
A resident of North Caldwell, N.J., Haba was brought to the attention of the authorities by officials from the University of South Dakota after a room check at Coyote Village uncovered items USD's manager of media relations described as being "possibly considered explosive in nature."
According to the Associated Press, the USD authorities said that Haba had an alleged connection to the student in question.
A dorm on the Rutgers-Newark campus was evacuated Wednesday while the FBI searched for further potentially hazardous substances relating to Haba, who has been released to his parents, the AP said.
The series of events began Tuesday when Coyote Village staff members were inspecting a room that had been vacated by a former student and found the suspicious items, Carter said.
Campus police and the Vermillion Police Department were notified, and authorities from Sioux Falls also appeared on the scene.
As depicted in a photo posted on campus newspaper The Volante's Web site, a "bomb squad" vehicle was among those parked outside Coyote Village during the search of the room.
"Even though there didn't appear to be an immediate threat, several rooms affecting about 20 students were evacuated just as a safety precaution," Carter said.
Investigators from Sioux Falls uncovered further items in their search, he added.
Carter said the investigators left campus shortly after midnight, and all Coyote Village residents are now back in their rooms.
The investigation is being handled by the Division of Criminal Investigation, Carter said.
A representative from the DCI told the Plain Talk that she had no further information to add about the investigation itself, but that any charges against the former USD student will be filed by the Clay County state's attorney.
– The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Updated: October 18, 2012 7:57PM
AURORA — Two West Aurora School District buildings were put on a "soft" lockdown Thursday morning after police received a 911 call reporting a person with a possible weapon spotted in the 1300 block of Merrimac Place.
The street is near West Aurora High School, Jefferson Middle School and McCleery Elementary School.
Police said that 7:15 a.m., a 9-year-old girl opened her bedroom blinds and saw a black female, about 15- or 16-years-old, playing in some leaves in the front yard of her home. She said the teen began to walk away, and then stood in the middle of the street and took what appeared to be handgun from a bag or backpack.
Police said the teen allegedly pointed what looked like a gun down the street, then put it away and left the area.
By the time police were called at 8 a.m., students began showing up at all three nearby schools.
Police worked with administrators and directed students inside their respective buildings. Jefferson and McCleery were placed on "soft" lockdowns until 9:10 a.m. In a "soft" lockdown, children are kept inside the building and not allowed out on the playgrounds.
Police checked the area for the suspect, but no one was found matching the description.
Teachers were also asked to search their rooms for any student matching that description, but none were found, police said.
Surveillance cameras at West Aurora High School also yielded no clues.
Police said the suspect was described as dark-complected, 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-7, weighing 140 to 170 pounds. The girl was wearing a black hair net or hair garment, a dark sweat shirt or coat, blue pajama-type pants that had penguins imprinted on them, and brown boots with heels. She was carrying a brown-and-white plaid or checkered tote bag over her shoulder.
Anyone with information is asked to call Aurora police at 630-256-5500.


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The Language of Flowers is narrated by Victoria, whose story alternates between a challenging past as a foster child and a present in which she struggles to get by as young woman, recently sent out on her own by her long-time social worker, Meredith. Victoria is challenged by memories she believes have come together to define her personality and change her life. Her stories flow together to explain how an orphan who moved from one foster home to another eventually arrived at her ideal home and found love with a woman named Elizabeth. Elizabeth teaches her to express emotion through the Victorian "language of flowers." While Victoria's struggles with poverty and loneliness are interesting, the outcomes were expected and predictable, while the concept of the language of flowers was ultimately the highlight of the text.
From the onset of this story, a reader doesn't expect a book which was praised as heart-warming and romantic to be the sad story of foster child, moving from one home to another, year after year, unhappy, confused and alone. I wanted a different protagonist, with more initiative for change, despite what I knew about Victoria's upbringing and how it might lead to negative future behaviors. Her past unfolds and reasons for her solitude are revealed. But none of it was a surprise, and both people involved and outcomes were too easy to decipher.
As story shifted from past to present, Diffenbaugh interweaves significance of the language of flowers into Victoria's life. Her foster mother Elizabeth had once taught her to use this language, and Victoria had continued the tradition as a young adult, working at a flower shop preparing bouquets. She remembers first learning how Victorians used dictionaries to express ideas and emotions with flowers; each one had a corresponding meaning. Along with the author's first explanation of the language of flowers, my expectations for its incorporation into the text were high. In the end I didn't love the story that was attached to the brilliant idea.
I believe that this was a decent story, that many people might enjoy. It may not have warranted the criticism I gave it, but it was not the story I wanted to read when I read it. I guess I just wanted a different kind of love story and romance than was attached to idea of the language of flowers.
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Show a loved one just how special they are by naming a unique pack of rose seeds after them that they can grow into a beautiful bush and cherish forever. Sticking your arm out of the car window at the traffic lights, and buying a dying bunch of GM pumped roses from an old bucket is just so not a romantic gesture.
Having a Rose named after your amour however, is about as romantic as it gets. This boxed Name A Rose kit comes with everything you need to name a rose. The kit includes a packet of unique and unnamed rose seeds, a registration card, a growing guide and a Name a Rose certificate to make your new rose official.
Simply fill in the enclosed registration card (adding the name of the person to be immortalised) and the name will be registered on the Name A Rose database and submitted to the British Library. Once registered you will also be sent an A4 certificate with the name of the rose printed on it.
With a little luck (if you read the rose growing guide) you will soon be the owner of a bunch of roses that no-one else on the entire planet could possibly have grown. Now isn't that a load more romantic than a sad old bunch of wilters?
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Geologi Winners 2012
The winners of the GeoLogi2012 short film competition were announced on 17 October during an awards presentation at Geoscience Australia to celebrate Earth Science Week.
Geoscience Australia's CEO, Dr Chris Pigram presented the GeoLogi Awards to the winning entries.
The GeoLogi short film competition is co-hosted annually by Geoscience Australia and the Australian Science Teachers Association . Students from all states and territories were invited to participate in the national competition.
Entries were received from around the country, including New South Wales, South Australia and the ACT. The short films explored the students' view of the world around them and included films on earthquakes and tsunami, landforms, fossils, volcanoes, geysers and Douglas Mawson.
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Through Thick or Thin: Exploring Europa's Outer Layer of Ice
"Our work has been on understanding the geology and geological systems of Europa, and what we have come to understand is that everything on the surface has a linkage to the ocean," says Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona. "In the chaotic terrain - the areas where the ice appears to have melted down into the warmer ocean before refreezing - there are a number of niches where organisms could survive and prosper in the ice."
Organisms couldn't live right on the surface of the ice because the temperature is a frigid -160 C (-260 F), too cold for even a microbe to survive other than in a state of complete hibernation. But brief exposure to the outer ice layer may provide the organisms in Europa's ocean with a steady source of nutrition. The food - oxidants produced by radiation bombarding the outer ice layer - would drain downward into the ocean at the areas of ice melt-through. The mixing of ice crust and subsurface ocean may provide microorganisms with another source of food as well. It is possible that when cracks opened in the ice layer, organisms living in the ocean would be exposed to the faint rays of the sun.
Greenberg thinks the cracks in the ice could provide an ideal habitat for organisms on Europa. The cracks are caused by the tidal pull of the gas giant Jupiter, which squeezes Europa like a tennis ball. Greenberg believes that Europa's ice is only a few kilometers thick, and that the cracks reach down to the ocean below. If true, the tidal motion of Europa's ocean periodically would push water up and down in the cracks. In this way, the cracks would act as passageways where organisms can continually reach the surface.
Robert Pappalardo of Brown University has very different ideas of how organisms might access the oxidants and sunlight on Europa's surface. Pappalardo disagrees with Greenberg about the thickness of Europa's ice; based on geophysical modeling, he believes Europa's crust is about 20 kilometers thick. Still, Pappalardo says that a thicker ice crust would not prevent interaction between the icy surface and the liquid ocean. He suggests that diapirs - columns of warmer ice that slowly plough their way upwards through the top ice layer - could provide the needed interchange.
"On Earth, salt rises as diapirs through overlying higher-density sediments - notably in Iran and off the Texas Gulf coast," says Pappalardo. "We can best visualize the process by picturing a Lava Lamp. On Europa, warm ice forms the rising blobs, as these are buoyant relative to the colder and denser overlying ice. The blobs could carry ocean material and any potential organisms up toward the surface."
The diapirs would act as a sort of elevator, bringing up the ocean-dwelling inhabitants and bringing down the oxidants formed on the surface of the moon.
"As they impinge on the cold near-surface ice, diapirs can melt out pockets of the surface ice, allowing it and entrained oxidants to drain downward into the deep portions of Europa's ice shell and presumably back into the ocean. In this way, diapiric stirring can help move microbes toward the surface, and can move nutrients down into the ocean."
Although the two scientists agree that interaction between the ice crust and ocean might support life, they strongly disagree about the thickness of that crust. Their disagreement is based on the estimated amount of energy available on Europa. Greenberg, for instance, believes Europa's constant tidal flexing generates enough heat to maintain both a liquid ocean and a thin ice crust.
"The tides on Europa distort the shape of the body once every 85 hours," says Greenberg, "so Europa gets enough tidal heating from Jupiter to maintain both a liquid ocean and a thin crust. There's been a lot of evidence that this is so. The convection of water in the ocean is enough to heat the ice and cause melt-throughs. You just need to do the math, calculating heat rates and tidal rates for Europa, to understand how the planet is warm enough for a liquid ocean and a thin ice crust.
"Rather than give any particular number for the thickness of Europa's crust," Greenberg continues, "the main line of argument is that the crust is thin enough for the ocean to be a factor, and thin enough for the cracks on the surface to reach down to the ocean below. With a crust 20-km-thick, that is very difficult."
"One could imagine turning up the amount of interior heat flow from Europa's rocky core to such a great extent that the ice shell becomes only 6 or so kilometers thick," says Pappalardo. "This is an extreme possibility, one that has not been supported by geophysical modeling.
"How would the heating be turned up so high?" Pappalardo asks. "To generate such heat flow, Europa would have to possess a rocky interior that is partially molten, and this interior would have to have been molten over the entire history of the solar system. If it were ever colder, it would not then be able to become molten. But so far, no geophysical model predicts such a hot Europa interior today."
"Moreover, this scenario raises a potential conundrum," Pappalardo continues. "If Europa is tidally heated to such an extent that it has a molten rock interior, then this large amount of tidal dissipation would act to damp out Europa's high [orbital] eccentricity," reducing the tidal forces, "and the interior in turn would cool. In other words, it has not been demonstrated that Europa's high eccentricity is compatible with a rocky interior. There are many issues which such a model must address before it can be considered credible, let alone compelling."
Ronald Greeley, professor of geology at Arizona State University, heads the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Europa Focus Group. In his opinion, what matters more than the question of thick or thin ice is the question of the age of Europa's surface. No-one knows whether the cracks in Europa's ice were made recently or are millions of years old.
"The age, or timing, of formation is extremely important," says Greeley. "With time, an originally thin crust might thicken as cooling progresses. Many investigators fail to say if they are referring to a given thickness for today's conditions, or if they are restricting comments to the time when the features they are investigating were first formed. Disregarding differences in opinion on how certain surface features might form, the ice crust thickness could be of different thicknesses in different places and at different times."
"Although," says Greeley, "Europa is lightly cratered from impacts, suggesting relative youth in the geologic context, the surface could still be millions of years old and not necessarily reflect today's crustal properties."
Another problem with crater-counting is that impact rates differ according to location in the solar system. For example, Jupiter has such immense gravity that it attracts a lot of asteroids, which could increase the cratering rate on its moons relative to better-understood standards like our own moon. Unfortunately, only crude estimates are available for the rate of impacts in the present Jupiter environment.
For Greeley, uncertainty about the age of Europa's surface leads to uncertainty about many of the moon's other proposed features. For instance, he says the only strong evidence that Europa's ocean is currently liquid is the magnetometer data sent by the Galileo probe. But that data is open to other interpretations, and is not absolute proof of a liquid ocean.
"The real bottom line is that we do not currently have the right kind of information to say if liquid water exists today beneath the surface, nor can we say how thick an ice crust might be even if there is liquid water at depth. For definitive statements, these data must come from a future mission, such as the Europa Orbiter."
What Next?
The Europa Orbiter is tentatively scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2010, and settle into a 200-kilometer orbit about Europa in 2011 or 2012. The proposed Orbiter will use radar to measure the thickness of the ice crust and to determine whether liquid water exists below the ice. Along with mapping the surface and measuring the topography of the moon, the Orbiter will also try to detect any signs of recent geological activity.


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Britney knows how to treat a superfan.
BIG, FAT LIAR: Christie claims Democrats are the intolerant ones.
Crimea votes to become part of Russia. This should go over well.
Ghanaian movie posters are beyond.
TOTALLY AWESOME 2000s: Aaron Carter misses Hilary Duff.
What looks worse, Diaz's "acting" or the kid's "singing"?:
Johnny Weir & his shady husband take a bite out of crime.
ON THE RADIO: Blogger blah-blah-blahs on the air tonight.
Will Harry Styles join the Wicked movie?
Fabuous Rock Hudson & Elizabeth Taylor limited editions raise $ vs. HIV:
A positively beautiful gesture
Nicole Kidman pretending to be Grace Kelly.
Prince is no longer cool on any level.
Darrell Issa is a complete jerk, CBC wants him out.
Desperately Seeking the Exit returns to NYC, like herpes—but funny!


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Report: Buffalo Bills will work out USC quarterback Matt Barkley on Monday
Having already worked out four of the top quarterbacks in this year's NFL draft class, the Buffalo Bills are turning their attention to USC's Matt Barkley.
The Bills will hold a private workout for Barkley and former Trojans receiver Robert Woods in Los Angeles on Monday, according to ESPN.com's James Walker.
Buffalo holds the No. 8 overall pick in the first round, as well as the No. 41 overall pick in the second round — closer to where Barkley is projected to go. The team released starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick earlier this month, but could focus its draft on the defensive side of the ball after allowed 27.2 points per game last season.
Buffalo has held private workouts for West Virginia's Geno Smith, Florida State's E.J. Manuel, Oklahoma's Landry Jones and Tennessee's Tyler Bray.
But the team could have particular interest in Barkley, who threw for 3,273 yards and 36 touchdowns during his senior season, given first-year head coach Doug Marrone's affinity for him.
After facing Barkley twice over the last two seasons while at Syracuse, Bills first-year coach Doug Marrone raved about the former Trojans' quarterback's comfort-level within a pro-style system. In the two wins, Barkley went 49 of 69 (71.0 percent) for 511 yards with 11 touchdowns and only one interception. In a 38-17 win in September of 2011, Barkley checked down to his running backs four times when the Orange eliminated his deep option downfield.
"If he doesn't like what's going on when they (take away) the deep vertical threats, he can come right back to the backs," said Marrone, days before the Orange's 42-29 loss to the Trojans in September. "That's one of the things you see with the top guys in the NFL."
Marrone even indicated that Barkley could have been the first quarterback selected behind Andrew Luck if he entered the Draft last season. If selected by the Bills, Barkley's experience with a short-passing game and his proficiency in making pre-snap adjustments could help him fit within Marrone's West Coast offense.


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Narrator: This is Science Today. It's been known for years that married people tend to live longer than those who stay unmarried. Now a study from the University of California, Berkeley shows that a happy marriage makes for a healthier old age. Cenita Kupperbusch, a doctoral candidate in psychology, says a long-term study of aging couples proves that a good marriage can be the best medicine-at least for men.
Kupperbusch: Husbands who had increases in marital satisfaction also had increases in their health. On the other hand, this was a positive relationship. So husbands who had decreases in marital satisfaction also showed decreases in health.
Narrator: The study followed 78 elderly couples over a period of 13 years. Using surveys and observation, the researchers found a clear link between marital satisfaction and health. But Kupperbusch says that the reason for that link is not yet known.
Kupperbusch: We don't know that changes in marital satisfaction are necessarily causing changes in health but we know there is some relationship between those two. It could be that changes in health are causing changes in marital satisfaction.Narrator: For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin.


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I would have loved to have seen this ported to HoI3, but alias, it is not to be, I say Kingdom of Greece
@Anjwalker: I understand that. The official name of Transvaal, however, was the South African Republic.
@oberstbrooksy: I'm rubbish at HoI3. Besides, I wouldn't want to go through the trouble of having to mod everything into HoI3 as it is in VicII.
Founder and Creator of World in Revolution
Awarded WritAAR of the Week Feb 05, 2012 | 3rd Place Winner of the AARland Choice AwAARds 2012 (Round 2) for Empire of the Pacific | Awarded Fan of the Week September 16th, 2012 | Awarded 2012 VictAARian Cross for Empire of the Pacific
"Tiger powder-induced eastern shenanigans" - Finnish Lord
"I have hot cousins" - Shynka
"Petrarch was right" - Petrarch
"Petrarch is actually right" - LYNCHY
"I really enjoyed the Gulag" - Blade!
"So sexy" - Franconian on violent insanity
"The soft-pr0n ... I like it for the atmosphere it creates and the sheer spectacle of the thing" - Tufto
<Doom> Sent Shynka some pics of my ass.
<mathrim-afk> Looks great
I believe he means South Africa, edited to have Boer as their primary culture. For some reason, their primary culture is British, even though it was always the Boers who held the most power in South Africa.
A rebel without a cause.
NK Foreign Minister Comrade Anastasia Ivanovna Petrova in Avindian's Soviet Union Interactive AAR.
Otto von Bismarck, Stadtholder of Leipzig, Reichsminister der Finanzen in Avindian's Sonderweg oder Anderweg Interactive AAR.
Unable to start or complete any of his AAR's.
By Boer South Africa I meant Transvaal. I'm talking about a surviving boer state, not a british colony released; that'd be something interesting to watch.
"Let's be free, the rest doesn't matters"
The Great Kingdom of South Africa at Imperium Offtopicum Paradox -- Republic of Poland at World in Revolution 1861 -- Republic of Argentina at World in Revolution 1900
Events GM in World in Revolution 1836
Fan of the Week: July 17th, 2011
A rebel without a cause.
I'd like to put forth my vote for Virginia and welcome you back! It's good to see an update here.
So I take it you're planning to go through with the plan you mentioned a long time ago of just sort of continuing the story of California but without using the game? At least I think I remember you saying that.
"Rasputin is my second favorite insane Russian mystic." ~Some Youtube Commentator
If suggestions are still open what about some kind of Atlantic Republic/Commonwealth/Kingdom? A country made up of Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and perhaps New England.
The Empire State. New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
I've read through the whole AAR and I've been following it for a while. You write very well and I always enjoy Greek AARs, so I'll vote for Greece.
I hope I can do this. I change my vote to Virginia But instead of a republic. A Monarchist Virginia
Reversed Ways: A Salzburg AAR (Completed by Corrupt Save)
Now with 10% Less Boxer Rebellions: A Fengtien (KR) AAR (Dead)
Please click and support my AAR's
Virginia. Because we are a bunch of sadists.
I'm calling it.
South Africa (2)
Virginia (7)
Transvaal (2)
Greece (2)
Atlantic Republic (1)
Empire State (1)
Monarchist Virginia (1)
Stay tuned, after WWII in Empire of the Pacific I will be writing my new AAR called...
Sic Semper Tyrannis - A Virginia AAR
Brief Bio: In the latter years of the 1820s, the young American Confederacy was pushed to its breaking point when a particularly nasty debate over slavery occurred between the two factions, North and South. In response to such a measure, the firebrand South Carolina voted for secession from the United States. It was only a year later that the rest of the South followed her. Taking the lead of her Southern compatriots, the Commonwealth of Virginia, as the largest and most powerful Southern State, leads the very loose Association of Southern States, with the United States of America looming to the North, Virginia looks to steak a claim in the world, in order to ensure the safety and stability of her Sisters.
Founder and Creator of World in Revolution
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Will you be looking to unite the South? Or will it be purely Virginia?
A rebel without a cause.
Awesome. I look forward to it.


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Branislav Ivanovic believes the ability to dig deep and grind out results, even when we are not at our best, will be pivotal over a busy December period.
The Blues face eight matches between now and the end of the month as we compete on three fronts, starting with tomorrow night's Barclays Premier League encounter at Sunderland.
Jose Mourinho's side came from behind to secure a big win against Southampton at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, and that type of spirit, as Ivanovic explained, will be important in the coming weeks.
'We have to go game by game and try to win a few matches in a row, which gives you an advantage over your opponents,' he said.
'This team has a lot of character, definitely. The important thing is we have to show that in every game, we need to stay on top. Even when we're not at our best we need to take a point and show personality.
'There's a long way to go, we have a busy month and it's important for us to recover quickly (between matches) and be ready for the next game.'
We are four points behind leaders Arsenal, who we face at the Emirates two days before Christmas. Ivanovic, however, is careful not to look too far ahead, and is simply pleased to be within sight of the pace setters.
'At this stage in the last few years we were already a lot of points behind the leaders, we are now there which gives us a good chance,' he said.
'Last year we had to chase points, which puts you under more pressure and makes it more difficult. We are improving as a team but we need to show that in every game.
'We have to be careful and we have to fight to try to win every game and every point. In December you can see how physically hard this league is, and it's one of the main references to see how strong the team is.
'At the start we knew the league would be very difficult and very equal, when you have five or six teams who can win the league it makes it extremely difficult. Before, it was always a battle between two or three teams from the beginning so if you picked up points from the start it created a gap. Now, it's quite tight between everyone and I think there are going to be more exciting games.'
The Serbian defender, who has started every league game so far this campaign, praises Demba Ba after the striker came off the bench on Sunday and helped turn the game in our favour.
'Demba showed that every minute on the pitch he tries to fight, he is a physical striker which helps us a lot,' he said. 'We're all very happy he scored his first league goal, it was a reward for his performance.
'Demba has quality and he's very important for this team, he can also hold the ball as well and he will be important in December and January.
'This is what's good for the team, we can change things during the game and it's important for us to have different types of players.'
- December's Score Predictor prize is a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3


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The first thing that I do when building a demo, or prototype, in Ruby on Rails is determine what I'm trying to do. If this is a project for an internal purpose, I try to identify what the problem is, and what the top needed features would be. Once I've done that, I can begin whipping up a database schema to reflect the data structures, and then start massaging in the basic functionality. After that, it's back and forth refactoring of the database and the codebase.


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Residence Life
Welcome to Residence Life at Sage College of Albany
For some people, living in the residence hall is what college is all about. Sage College of Albany's on-campus, coed residence hall provides living and learning space for about 100 first-year students in good academic standing.
Sage believes that residence halls should be active living/learning centers that compliment the academic programs of the College. Students can participate ina variety of social and educational programs, such as cultural dinners, aromatherapy workshops, fitness workshops, off-campus trips, and Halloween parties for area youth.
Living successfully in residence halls is dependent upon balancing individual freedoms with sensitivity and respect for the rights of others. A willingness to discuss, negotiate, and compromise is essential. Individual and cultural differences make up the unique texture of the residence halls, and students are encouraged to learn from one another.
Important Dates for Spring 2014
Sunday, January 19: Residents arrive
Monday, January 20: College closed (MLK, Jr. Day)
Tuesday, January 21: Classes begin
Saturday, March 8: Halls close at 11:00 AM for Spring Break
Sunday, March 16: Halls reopen at 12:00 (noon)
Friday, May 2: Last day of classes
May 5 and 6: Reading Days
May 7-9, 12: Final exams
Tuesday, May 13: Halls close at 11:00 AM (Residents must leave no later than 11:00 AM, or by 24 hours after their last final, whichever comes first.)
Saturday, May 17: TSC Commencement
Sunday, May 18: Halls close at 11:00 AM for those who participated in Commencement activities
After their first year, students may prefer to live in rental properties in the surrounding neighborhoods or at University Heights College Suites, a student housing complex only a short walk from campus. College Suites offers Sage students apartment-style living with new, fully furnished 4-bedroom units. If you are interested in living at College Suites, please contact the Office of Residence Life for information; our office works directly with the management of College Suites for you (and you do not have to pay a deposit!). Students who choose to live in College Suites are always welcome to attend any programs and events on the Sage campus and in the Albany Campus Residence Hall. Although the apartments at College Suites come with full kitchens, residents are also welcome to choose meal plans on campus.
For those students living off-campus, Sage makes commuting easy. We provide plenty of parking, on-campus dining options, and a comfortable commuter lounge.


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Information for Economics - International Area Studies majors planning on studying abroad.
EAP students may take economics courses in over 30 countries, at more than 90 universities. The UC Education Abroad Program offers three special features to help you choose the right program.
All classes taken on the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP) are UC approved courses and count toward your 180 unit requirement for graduation; however, your major department has the final authority to determine how the coursework is used to fulfill specific major requirements.
Courses are approved on a case by case basis and generally used for elective credit. Before going abroad, students should discuss with the department advisor which EAP courses the department will approve for credit toward the major. Students can often make changes to their study plan once they arrive in their country of choice, but should consult with the undergraduate staff advisor by e-mail first.
Note: the following guidelines are subject to change. Please see your major/minor advisor for up-to-date information.
Note: the following guidelines are subject to change. Please see your major/minor advisor for up-to-date information.
EAP Unit Limits for Major
Grade Requirements
Julie Plotkin
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Telephone: (310) 825-5118
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